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Nancy Bocskor,  is the author of “Go Fish:  How to Catch (and Keep) Contributors:  A Practical Guide to Fundraising,” Nancy is a professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management where she teaches both online and “live” fundraising courses.

Nancy served on the board of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale for seven years, where she chaired the school’s Curriculum Committee for five years. She is on the board for Running Start, an organization that encourages young women to run for office, and is a faculty member for Project 2012, a program hosted by the Center for American Women & Politics at Rutgers that recruits women 40 and over to run for public office.

Most recently, Nancy received the 2010 the Distinguish Alumni Award at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio for “her passion to affect change in national and international communities, training and consulting with the nation's and world's political leaders, and commitment to educate others, particularly women, around the world.”

Deb Sofield is President of her own Executive Speech & Presentations Coaching Co., which trains women and men for success in speaking, presentation skills and message development in the U.S. and abroad.

Sofield was recently chosen as a Liberty Fellow – a partnership with the Aspen Institute. Sofield was awarded the Order of the Palmetto – the State of South Carolina’s highest honor. She was named “Communicator of the Year” by the Association for Women in Communications and won the prestigious Toastmasters District 58 Communication and Leadership Award for the state of South Carolina. She was also awarded the Strom Thurmond Excellence in Public Service honor and was chosen as the 2005 ATHENA AWARD recipient by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce for her work with young people and aspiring politicians. Deb is a member of the National Speakers Association.

Deb Sofield is a visiting professor, teaching public speaking at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Woman’s Campaign School at Yale University (where Sofield is Past President), Loyola University School of Mass Communications, the University of South Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Clemson University the Thurmond Institute, Furman University Lifelong Learning and the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics. Sofield also works with the International Republican Institute of Washington, DC teaching, Communications Training for Civil Society around the world and she serves as a mentor and trainer for The Center for Liberty in the Middle East.

Actively involved in her community, Sofield represents the City of Greenville as Chairman of Commission of Public Works for the Water System and is the first woman to hold this position since its inception in 1918. Sofield was formerly a member of Greenville City Council, where she holds one of the highest vote victories in a district City election by overwhelmingly winning every precinct.